Instant death

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While usually creatures in Qud die only by taking sufficient damage, some methods of death bypass damage altogether and kill regardless of how much HP one has.

Methods of instant death

Note: methods noted with (!!) will kill the player even if they are currently dominating another creature, and that creature is the one affected.

• reaching higher than 10,000T, causing instant vaporization
• losing your last remaining head to decapitation
• violating the Pauli exclusion principle while phasing
• getting hit by the gaze of the lithofex (including your own if you are a lithofex and gaze at a mirror shard) (!!)
• drinking neutron flux (specifically drinking it)
• being turned into a gem by a gemming attack(!!)
• dropping below 1 Willpower while wielding the amaranthine prism
• applying Spray-a-Brain to any temporary forcefield and be dominating it when their time runs out(!!) (examples are walls from stasis grenades, force bubble, and force wall. You can also use the entrance barrier in Grit Gate and walk away so that you are disconnected from the originating force projector)

Not normally possible for the player

The following methods of instant death are impossible for the player to do without wishes.

• running out the duration of Temporal Fugue when one is a fugue clone
• being shot with a nullray pistol when one is normality gas